Harvard University President Claudine Gay faced growing calls to resign this week despite the college showing unequivocal support to its first Black leader following a disastrous congressional hearing that accused the lifelong educator of allowing anti-Semitism to run rampant on the Ivy League campus during recent protests.
Gay faced the most explosive criticism from a former Vanderbilt University professor, Carol Swain, whose academic work she is accused of plagiarizing.
Swain is one of four scholars Gay allegedly copied but did not cite in her doctoral thesis at Harvard 26 years ago.
In light of the school’s choice to keep Gay, Swain said Harvard had shown preferential treatment after Gay had benefitted from the school’s diversity initiatives, adding that Harvard stood with the 53-year-old academician only because she is the university’s “first Black president.”
“It is an insult to intelligence what Harvard University has done,” Swain told Fox News Digital in comments about Harvard Corporation’s decision to let Gay off the hook for plagiarism, adding: “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work.”
Gay continued to face growing backlash more than a week after her devastating testimony on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, alongside Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill.
In recent days, at least four “doxxing” trucks with various digital billboards slamming Gay have also been spotted circling the campus and the embattled president’s home outside Boston.
Another sign reads: “Claudine Gay: the best friend Hamas ever had,” while others were seen that said, “Fire Gay” and “Gay refuses to protect Jewish students.”
The controversy surrounding Gay’s dissertation arose in recent days after an investigation by the conservative policy magazine City Journal alleged Gay violated several Harvard…
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